The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-02-17
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
TIE Ohio river has had its annual
picnic.
RUSSIA has forbidden the expectation Of
horses.
PETROLEUM has been found in Central
Belgium.
"MrsrIr suits to hire" are advertised in
New York.
STURGEON skin makes durable boot and
shoe leather.
The leading dentist in st. Petersburg 10
IN American.
CANADA is building her first steel steam
er at Toronto.
CIaARErTE paper is said to be made In
118 mills in Spain.
SERPENT-sKIN is coming into fashion a. .
covering for books.
also an undertaken.
IT is predicted that the new Boston court
house will cost q, 100000.
CHURCHILL has gone to Algiers to re.
store break in his health.
OBLIGATORY military service in Belgium
is to be made thirteen years.
MAN in Pennsylvania has just sold hiA
wife and four children for $50.
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS does all his lit
erary work with goose quill.
MRS. LILLE PRoK, Of Olalla, Ore, haa
killed seven bears this winter.
MORE people are cremated these days in
railroad cars than in crematories.
A LOUISIANA (Mo.) man had the hic-
coughs for fourteen consecutive days.
ACANApIAN says that the word toboggan
is properly pronounced with the second o
long
OLD settlers in Dakota say this has been
the severest winter ever experienced
there.
The children Of Apaches imprisoned in
Florida are being educated in Pennsyl-
vania.
CONTACTS for carrying the British mails
to America will expire at the end Of the
month.
THE ghost Of Stonewall Jackson, mounted
on his war.horse, has lately been seen in
Virginia.
IT is now in order for some Chicago mur-
derer to arrange-if he can-to be hanged
byproxy.
ENGLAND has practically decided to
adopt the Lee American rife for the use
Of her army.
LARGE numbers of cedar railway ties are
being shipped from Alpena, Mich, by rail
to New Mexico.
The question in Europe is not how to
avoid war, but how to avoid the responsi-
bility for causing it.
Fashionable churches in New York are
overrun with what the sections call "reg-
ular pew spongers."
TWENTY-FIVE Indians have just entered
the Institute at Hampton, Va, from the
Dakota Reservation.
A VEIN of marble one hundred feet wide
has been discovered on the road from
Bodie to Carson, New.
THE State Of Delaware has not single
Republican oficial-the only State in the
Union that can say so.
A POPULAR subscription has been started
in Arizona to purchase gold-mounted
sword for General Miles.
DAN RICE, the veteran circus clown and
temperance lecturer, has again fallen into
bad habits in Cincinnati.
AGE and its infirmities are the cause Of
the retirement Of President Pickard from
the Iowa State University.
A PETRIFIED human being is said to have
been discovered in a cave ON Sand Noun
tain, Tenn, few days ago.
CLEVELAND, O., has 261l square miles Of
territory; Cincinnati, "a; Chicago, 50; New
York, 4l1S; and London, liz.
We are paying annually &z5,0o0 90 n
pensions, and il the proposed new bills b.
come laws it will reach sl47, ,ooa,0e0.
A BILL has been introduced into the
Pennsylvania Legislature providing for
the retirement Of judges on pension.
GILBERT, the English librettist, has not
seen one Of his plays acted for fourteen
years, owing to excessive nervousness.
GENERAL SHERMAN would sink sea-coast
forts below the surface Of the water, and
in this way make them almost impregna-
BILE.
THE Philadelphia Itesa says never Judge
q man by the umbrella he carries. Nine
times out Of ten it belongs to somebody
else.
GUssIE TooGooD was acquitted Of mnr.
der on her second trial at Des Moines,
which she regards as just TOO good for
any thing.
THE German postofice authorities are
view to connect the whole OF Germany by
telephone.
TIE largest coal mine in the vicinity of
Huntsville, No., has been opened on the
cooperative plsn,. the men paying one cent
. bushel for the use Of the plant.
A srATIsTIcIAN shows that while popula-
ton increases at the rate Of only two per
cent. annually, the increase of physicians
is more than five and q half per cent.
STANDARD time is being abandoned IN
some Michigan cities and towns, and it 10
thought the Legislature of that State
will repeal the law that legaiized it, adop-
tion.
! LEADvIILB has the champion toboggsn
slide. It runs from the top Of Mosquito
Pass, through the city to the Arkansas
river, near Malta, q distance of fifteen
miles.
The largest thester in the world 10 the
new opera-house in Paris. 1t covers near
~ three acres Of ground; its cubic mass
is 4,2S7, 200 feet; it cost about 1OO, O,OO0, 900
francs.
; BAN FRANcIsco 10 greatly interested In
the subject Of coast defenses. They have
. plan for the defense Of the Golden Gate
that would call for the expenditure Of se7,-
s6e, ,150
A MAGNIFICENT plant and property worth
81, O,000, 900, st the Charleston (Mass.) navy
yard, are running to waste. Five thou
ssud men were employed there day and
night st one time during the war.
JACK HAvsY, an eccentric character Of
Pittsburgh, Pa. died recently, after living